Donna Brazzi Barnes taught dental hygiene for over twenty years before earning a PhD in sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, after which she began a career teaching women's studies and continuing her research on women with HIV/AIDS in three US cities. Barnes has given talks at numerous national social science conferences, including the International AIDS Society Conference in Paris and International AIDS Conferences in Toronto and Barcelona. Her scholarship has been anthologized in Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS (Springer, 2013), and two other books, as well as in various academic journals. She lives in Kensington, California.
